I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
I view filmmaking as a director's medium.
I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.
I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic.
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.
I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to make movies I want to see.
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.